The United States conducted surveillance of the leaders of Israel and Turkey

The US National Security Agency monitored Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It is reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing its sources.

Surveillance of the leaders of friendly countries goes, despite the promise of US President Barack Obama to abandon such measures, the publication emphasizes.

Remove the ban on spying on Netanyahu Obama administration decided during the discussion of a nuclear program with Iran.

US officials feared that Netanyahu might disrupt the agreement. At the same time, they could not request information from Tel Aviv officially due to political risks. NSA surveillance revealed that Netanyahu and his advisers, with the help of Israeli intelligence services, received information about negotiations between the US and Iran, and later tried to disrupt them.

The Wall Street Journal does not explain why the Turkish President was being monitored.

In 2013 year стало известно that the NSA was tapping the phones of German Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2002 of the year. how He claimed former NSA officer Edward Snowden, the practice of intercepting telephone conversations was used in US embassies in 80 countries of the world. US President Barack Obama then apologized to Merkel, saying that he did not know anything about spying. Later, he promised to abandon this practice.